Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-21
General Oeps.
DOMESTIC.

Il Ire at AlIlCIDDdIl Oh SATURDAY upStrON-
ed $40, 900 worth of property
Another cholera-infected steamer from
Italy has arrived at New York.
Much suffering among the people of
Labrador for lack of food is reported.
John f. Henry & Co., wholesale drug
gists of New York city, have suspended.
President Cleveland and party spent
Sunday in Nashville, and are now in Ala
bama.
The great Sprague mill at Baltic, Conn,
was burned Friday morning. Loss ST.
100000.
The capital of the Pullman Palace Car
company has been increased to twenty
million.
The bronze equestrian statue of Gen.
Meade in Paramount park, Philadelphia,
was unveiled Tuesday.
Diphther!a is raging in the south part
of Manchester, n. III. Seven deaths have
occurred within few days.
Attorney General Longley of Nova
Scotia will visit Washington to urge his
scheme of commercial union.
The Missouri grand lodge of Masons
has voted not to admit to membership in
the order saloon keepers and dealers.
The United States fish commissioner
is about to establish a station off Glou-
cester, Mass, for the artificial propaga-
ton of Goldfish.
1t is charged that railway contractors
in Maine have violated quite extensively
the law respecting the importation of
foreign laborers.
San Francisco is greatly agitated over
disclosures of wholesale bribery of
judges, juries and other officials in impor-
tant public cases.
Gen. Sheridan is writing a book on the
war, which it is said. will be used as
campaign document in the coming pres
idential contest.
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the
Christian Union. has been engaged to
supply the Plymouth ru''it until sue
cessor to Beecher is CHI.
1t is reported that ita rtant papers
in the telephone suit, Ro1 ". Garland
are missing from the CO. records at
Washington, and that -, ial will be
the result.
\ vein of rock salt, tv I'VE feet
thick, and another. not hetrated
have been reached at Itlar Y, in a
well 2230 feet deep, which 20 be made
1000 feet deeper unless or gas is
found.
The remains of Gen. Jui. Fitzpatrick
were taken to West Pou and buried
Tuesday. The horse DAM which Gen.
fitzpatrick rode at Wine aster. now 81
years old, was led. ridel ass, after the
hearse.
Benjamin F. Butler has Oeen definitely
retained as counsel in the anarchists case
and will appear for the defendants before
the Supreme court to-day. For his SER
vices as leading attorney, Gen. Butler
will receive retainer of $500 and $3.50
a day.
Stephen W. Rawson, Chicago banker,
was shot and probably fatally wounded
on the steps OF church ia that city sun
day by his step-son. Rawson and his
wife have quarreed and the young man
sought to avenge his mothers fanced or
real wrongs.
At last a man has been found whose
courage was equal to attacking a train
robber. Two desperadoes stopped
train on Friday on a Texas road and
broke open the express car with dyna-
mite bomb. The plucky messenger him
self shot both fellows dead.
Mrs. Annie Lachs of st. Louis, the wo-
man who threw pancake into the lap
of Mrs. Cleveland the day the presidential
party were in that city. was fined $50 in
disclaimed any disrespect for Mrs. Cleve-
land and said she threw the cake in
spirit of fun.
RancherOs have pursued and caught
five of the abductors of Senior Berrera in
Starr county, Tex, and at once executed
them. Senior Berrera, it will be remem-
bered. was captured by these bandits
near his ranch on the Texas side of the
river and held eight days until $500
was paid by his family for his release.
An unfinished building. intended for a
parochial school on East Eleventh street,
New York city, fell Tuesday killing five
men outright and wounding ten others,
including the priest who was superintend-
ing the work. 1t is said the priest was
so eager to finish the work that he neg
lected to use ordinary safeguards, even
after being warned by contractor.
The woman murdered at Railway, y.
j., several months ago, has been identified
as Mrs. Anna Ingram, who two years ago
came to America from Birmingham, Eng
land. She was widow of drinking
habits. In December she married man
in Boundbrook and left him the next day
he disappeared soon after and has not
since been seen.
Interest is revived in the mystery about
the robbery of the Dexter, Me-, bank in
1873 and the fate of Cashier Barron by
the confession of one of a gang of six
criminals who are said to have robbed
the bank and murdered Mr.. Barron.
David l.. Stain has been arrested at
Franklin, Mass, charged with being
concerned in the robbery. The devel-
opments thus far are rather sensational
than conclusive.
San Antonio, Tex, is in trouble over
her wool market. In the history of the
city there has never been such dead
lock of buyers, for Boston, New York,
Chicago and st. Louis houses were bad
ly bitten last spring by the heavy decline
which set in subsequent to their pay
ment of fancy prices, and came down this
fall determined to take wool at bedrock
figures. The commission men have been
warned, and formed combine to let the
staple go only at what they considered